Time2024
Team
Helen Tang, Yuen Zou
In both places, visitors wander, observe, and attempt to piece together their encounters as reflections of the owners’ personal stories.The film is structured around these two sites, which share similarities in the rhythm of imageries and the voiceover structure. With a touch of humor, the film invites viewers to reinterpret these static collections of remembrance with a sense of living imagination. The soundtrack further frames these two collections as part of a broader network of narratives that exist all around us.
Our film has a very unique format of presenting itself, it is a combination of a narrative voiceover and a series of visuals that have metaphoric relations to the narrative objects. We took inspirations from Peter Greenaway’s Windows, and Patrick Keiller’s film Robinson in Space. These examples showed us the potential of producing a juxtaposition between the narration and the visual moving images in a stream of conscious manner, and the art of montage to merge our materials to create a synesthesia experience.
Our script writing, specifically, was inspired by the humorous way of Peter Greenaway’s writing in Windows. We consciously mix false facts into true ones, and use a convincing narrator voice to present the content in an documentary way, which creates an even surreal atmosphere over the film. We do have a taste for surreal in general and the choices of footages in the cemetery that somehow embedded with surreal characters are made intended by us. On that aspect of the film we took references to Maya Daren’s At Land and Tarsem Singh’s The Fall, which beings a spice of fantasy to the narration.